Backend Developer

As a backend developer, you will:

- Own, design, develop, launch and continuously improve our global omnichannel eCommerce platform with new customer features. Build products that delight customers and convert into commercial success! We have already launched the platform in 9 European countries and 11 retail brands within last 24 months. Our ambitious goal is to scale this platform to more countries and retail brands within the Group in the coming years as well as continuously innovate on customer features and platform capabilities.
- Deeply understand the architectural principles of our unique best-of-breed platform which is fully MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) and actively advise on how to take it to the next level. Our tech stack is as good as it can be, and we use the most innovative technologies
- We have 6 Development Squads that take ownership of parts of our omnichannel customer journey. Part of your time, you will be working in one of these teams but rest of the time you will be acting as a Back-end software engineering lead across all 6 teams and ensure adherence to back-end architecture and code-level execution. You will act as a coach to all back-end developers.

1. Browse to Order (PLP, PDP, Landing Pages, Home Page, Campaign Pages, Site Search & Merchandising)
2. Order to Cash (Cart /Checkout /Payment)
3. Prescription Glasses (Configurator)
4. Wear to Care (My Account, customer details, order history, payment history, Re-Orders)
5. Web to store /omnichannel (Advanced Appointment Booking, Subscription, Store Employee app, Endless Aisle)
6. Roll out Team: onboard new banners in new countries to the global platform

- You will work closely with (both internal and external resources) including service & interaction /UX designers, visual /UI designers, architect and devops engineers.
- You are accountable for the delivery and execution of the customer experience of the global ecommerce product and its related security, performance, integrity and scalability; this product powers millions of customers every day
- Champion the need of superior customer experience throughout the execution of a project, ensuring that what is delivered meets the original CX goals, objectives, quality and coding standards.
- Deliver product incrementally in bi-weekly Agile scrum sprints and on schedule.
- Writing and deploying clean, tested, and well-documented code
- Mentoring other members of the team via joint programming, code reviews, etc.
- Champion the need of superior customer experience throughout the execution of a project, ensuring that what is delivered meets the original CX goals and objectives, and complies to our software & architecture principles.
- Work with the teams to identify improvements for existing and new core services, collaborate to define the solution direction
- Liaise with tech leads, architects and communities to ensure knowledge sharing

Experience:
- 4+ years of experience in delivering e-Commerce and/or digital products (preferably at least 2-3 years for a large retailer)
- Extensive knowledge sharing on agile, lean, and SAFe
- Large group facilitation and overseeing the bigger picture

Knowledge and technical skills:
- Strong skills and hands-on experience with: NODE JS (a must), JAVA (a plus)
- Hands on experience in designing & developing Microservices based on headless architecture, domain driven design
- Hands-on experience in integration technologies
- Hands-on experience in designing Cloud solutions based on enterprise cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS)
- Challenging the developers and architects to bridge the gap between the architecture and codebase level implementation
- Strong skills and hands-on experience with: NODE JS (a must), JAVA (a plus), GraphQL as well as REST API
- DevOps: Githib, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
- e-Commerce & CMS experience (e.g. commerceTools, Bloomreach)
- Search engines (e.g. Algolia search and merchandising)

Soft skills
- Strong communication skills
- Logical, rational, and no-nonsense realist
- Customer obsessed – quality is key, and in the end the customer determines if you are successful
- Very fast in understanding urgency and not afraid to commit to challenging timelines
- Can do attitude, always looking for options to get the job done
- Self-aware; you know what you do not know
- Capability to anticipate and communicate issues/risks well
- Highly adaptable to new environments, new people, new culture; with a natural ability to embrace learning and develop through experience
- High level of energy and ambition to realize a positive impact
- Attention to detai
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to affectively collaborate with all professional levels across many different countries and cultures

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